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Re: Debian Debconf Translation proposal ( again )



Denis Barbier <barbier@linuxfr.org> wrote:
[...]
> Translation teams need:
>  * Continuous read access to the files they have to translate.
>    Waiting for uploads introduces several problems:
>      + superfluous delay.
>      + maintainer errors when applying patches cannot be fixed before
>        uploads (which is critical during the freeze).
>      + errors newly introduced in English strings will be fixed in
>        n+1, so translations cannot be fixed before n+2 (unless
>        only translators make errors, not maintainers).
[...]

Valid points. There are also times when you simply cannot make an
upload to update the translations, because you are waiting for the
version to propagate to testing.
              cu andreas



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